Tatako is now on Google Play. The Android app, Tatako: English for kids, brings our first-words lessons to Android phones and tablets, and you can install it from Google Play today.
First words are how a child starts talking with the people they love. Tatako is a first-words app for families raising a child with two languages: about five minutes a day, a parent right next to the child, and nothing to read.
Your child learns English. The prompts, the menus and every step of guidance are in your family’s own language.
What your child does in a lesson
Every lesson keeps the same calm rhythm. In Hear it, say it, each word plays three times, with a pause to say it out loud. In Touch it, two pictures appear, and your child touches the one they hear. In Name it, the picture comes back without the word, and your child names it first.
The words start with “hello” and “mommy” and grow into colors, animals and what the teacher says in class. Tatako the octopus waves along with whichever of his eight arms happens to be free.
Two minutes for the parent
After each lesson you spend about two minutes marking how every word went: New, Repeat more, Understands, Can say. Shaky words come back first, new words wait their turn, and you choose how many old and new words go into the next lesson.
One account on every device
Sign in with Google or with email, and your child’s progress follows them from the Android app to the lessons on the web, on any phone, tablet or computer. The app is free to download, with in-app purchases, and it has no ads.
A lesson asks for five minutes on the sofa and one word at a time. Get Tatako: English for kids on Google Play, and see why five minutes a day is plenty for a child’s first words.
